PRODUCTS: NONMEM® USER TIPS

These tips are brought to you as information of interest from experiences in using NONMEM. All tips can also be found in the tips folder on the NONMEM Repository@GloboMax.

Tip # 1 - Tip of the Week:


We have found it useful to "pre-pend" the control stream to the output file and also add the run start time and end time to this file by modifying the default run scripts, nmfe5.bat (for DOS) or nmfe5 (for Linux/UNIX).

DOS modifications to nmfe5.bat for Windows 2000 and Windows NT (for Windows 95, do not use the date and time lines):

1. original beginning of nmfe5.bat script:
   @echo off
   
   modified beginning of nmfe5.bat script:
   @echo off
   echo Start Time: >%2
   date /t >>%2
   time /t >>%2
2. original nmfe5.bat script segment starting with:
   
   nonmem.exe
   copy output %2
   
   modified nmfe5.bat script segement starting with:
   
   nonmem.exe
   copy %2 +%1 +output %2
   echo Stop Time: >>%2
   date /t >>%2
   time /t >>%2
   UNIX and Linux script modification:
   
   original end of nmfe5 script:
   
   echo Starting nonmem execution ...
   ./nonmem < FCON > $2
   
   new end of nmfe script:
   
   echo Starting nonmem execution ...
   date >$2
   cat $1 >>$2
   echo " " >>$2
   echo " " >>$2
   ./nonmem < FCON >> $2
   date >>$2